Chequita Owens, PhD

Data & Research Coordinator

Chequita has 12 years experience designing and conducting medical sociology research in such areas as post-traumatic stress disorder in women, minority health and health disparities in diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer using primary and secondary data sources with statistical software. She also has 10 years experience processing data inquiries and summarizing data. Recently, she has had an article published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, an affiliate of John Hopkins University Press.

Her other experiences include 5 years conducting focus groups and summarizing the responses, as well as collecting data in preparation for an academic program’s accreditation study. Following graduate work at the University of Oklahoma, she earned a PhD in Sociology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, with concentrations in Medical Sociology, Family Sociology and Public Policy. Owens has done post-doctorate research at the Durham North Carolina Veterans Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatric and Behavioral Science through a UNC-Duke University collaborative program. Owens has 10 years experience teaching and working in higher education at the University of Oklahoma and Langston University. Since returning to her Oklahoma roots, Owens has remained active in the Oklahoma City community as a volunteer, the mother of a school teacher-administrator and mother-in-law of a youth minister, and in the music, deacon board and Christian Education departments at East Sixth Street Christian Church.

Chequita can be contacted by phone at (405) 424-2282 ext. 113 or via email at cowens@okpca.org.